It is now illegal to encourage the use of condoms in southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State. The state government has also banned the advocacy and...
NIGERIA: Worst cholera outbreak in years in Benue State
At least 35 people have died of cholera in the capital of Benue State, Madurdi, and the town of Oturkpo. Both areas have a history of cholera...
NIGERIA: Govt hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit
The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris...
NIGERIA: Biafra separatist leader free and defiant
The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria known formerly as Biafra was released from detention at the end of October in...
NIGERIA: Plan to demolish waterfront villages suspended
Residents of waterfront villages around Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt are relieved as a plan to demolish their homes has been shelved following...
NIGERIA: Polio vaccine back in the headlines
A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have...
NIGERIA: President halts privatisation of Unity Schools
President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration has halted an initiative of his predecessor to privatise 102 elite public secondary schools across Nigeria....
NIGERIA: What has Yar'Adua done for basic services?
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua recently declared the energy crisis a national emergency, but aid groups say he should also declare a state of...
NIGERIA: Wave of repression on so-called ‘amoral’ behaviour
Human rights advocates in Nigeria are voicing alarm about recent arrests of cross-dressing men and of women allegedly wearing ‘indecent’ clothes,...